Re: No packages lately for arm64?

Hello all,

Does anybody know what is the actual problem behind this? I had to switch
quarterly to latest on 13.2 last week because perl5.32 didn't have EOL tag
on quarterly. So I wasn't able to upgrade perl5 from perl5.32 to perl5.34
smoothly by "pkg upgrade" and I decided to switch to latest. And then I
realized the package update frequency on latest is much worse than
quarterly. It hasn't been updated for more than 1 month.

Best regards,
furaisanjin

2023年7月18日(火) 6:35 Carl Johnson <[email protected]>:

> Mark Millard <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > On Jul 17, 2023, at 08:50, Carl Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> I have been watching for packages for the new quarterly port builds, but
> >> I haven't seen anything yet.  I already update my amd64 system several
> >> days ago, but nothing has shown yet for arm64.  I checked my logs and I
> >> installed security updates last month, but there haven't been any for
> >> the last couple of weeks.  When I run pkg update, I just get the
> >> following:
> >>
> >>    # pkg update
> >>    Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> >>    FreeBSD repository is up to date.
> >>    All repositories are up to date.
> >>
> >> I have compared some package versions to my amd64 system and the arm64
> >> packages are definitely out of date.  I am running FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE
> >> and all pkg configuration files are the original defaults.  Is there
> >> some web site I could look at to see the build status for packages?
> >
> > There were major problems with pkg and its performance and resource
> > use in an update. Official builds for latest were stopped and
> > restarted multiple times as pkg was updated to try to get past the
> > issues.
> >
> > On 2023-Jul-13 9 builds were started, each on a separate server, each
> > with 25000+ ports to build. None were quarterly.  Looks like 3
> > are still not done, one being for arm64 on ampere2. The other of
> > the 9 build servers are off doing other builds now. 131releng-armv7
> > started building on ampere3 but is not quarterly. It has 26000+ ports
> > to build.
> >
> > But 131arm64's quarterly is building on ampere1 and has 12000+ of
> > 25000+ to go.
> >
> > These notes do not cover distribution of built packages to the
> > distribution servers. That adds more time after the builds and
> > the status is not as easy to find.
> >
> > I used https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/?all=1&type=package to gather
> > some of the details presented.
>
> Mark,
> Thanks for the information.  I have bookmarked that so I can look it up
> myself in the future.
>
> --
> Carl Johnson            [email protected]
>
>